Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 2 | The wretched animal could only carry away one chicken but he bit the heads off all the others in a sheer lust of killing . ’ |
| 3 | Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire , and she could only take so much punishment . |
| 4 | Any of these devices could obviously offer more attractive price incentives were they mass produced but at present fairly small amounts are being spent on wave energy research , which has , so far , not caught the imagination of large investors whether government or private , in the same way as , for instance , nuclear fusion . |
| 5 | The realization that this is no future at all could finally bring about radical change , which is still within our grasp . |
| 6 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 7 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 8 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 9 | Having received identical treatment from rows of Benedict 's men on duty , I could not conceive why Old Red should be the object of so much wrath from my fellow nurses . |
| 10 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |
| 11 | But he could not feel so certain inside that Connon 's malady would respond to physical treatment . |
| 12 | There was also controversy at the time when the East Belfast MP claimed the new station , with its one fire engine , could not provide as much cover as Castlereagh , which had two appliances . |
| 13 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 14 | She could not see how telling Cabochon would help . |
| 15 | Vokins , in particular , could not see how this announcement was supposed to set his mind at rest . |
| 16 | It was a very slight chance , a mere wisp of straw snatched against an overwhelming disaster , for Sharpe could not see how any general , let alone a pimpled prince , could reform the broken troops of the centre and stop the French from sweeping forward to take the crossroads . |
| 17 | Try as he might , the man could not cast out this devil of himself . |
| 18 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 19 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 20 | While this was useful and did hold the attention of members interested in the specific subjects being examined , the subcommittees moved from one area of expenditure to another each session so that they developed no expertise and could not follow up previous work . |
| 21 | Mr Paleokrassas said he could not say how much money would be granted to the industry , but added it was likely to be ‘ quite substantial ’ . |
| 22 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 23 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 24 | At least , he supposed that it was important , but he could not work up any enthusiasm . |
| 25 | He could not hazard how much business Cetia will do from the Power Engine range because it will be go through three channels : Cetia , Thomson and IBM . |
| 26 | But there are so many different styles in Texas and I think that 's what I liked about growing up there ; you could just hear so much stuff . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I could hardly read up this bit , could I ? |
| 28 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 29 | Graham could hardly believe how much Laidlaw had changed since he had last seen him when they were both still with Delta . |
| 30 | At the end of the first year Susan realised that although the business was profitable she could hardly take out enough money to live on because she was heavily reliant on her bank and creditors already . |